From: Peter Subject: Re: Moving Hard Drive Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:16:22 +0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040117031622.B31C01C900@heisspf> References: <200401162145.i0GLjZDu004162@dbmail-mx3.orcon.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:49:07 +1300." <200401162145.i0GLjZDu004162@dbmail-mx3.orcon.co.nz> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cr Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Thanks! Peter said: > > Boot initially > > from a floppy into SW run lilo and I should be set with the new drive > >as master. cr@orcon.net.nz said: > Re the boot floppy, if it was created when you installed your system, > it may be set to boot your system on hdc and may fail when you move > it to hda. I can tell the floppy to boot into hda* and in SlackWare (there is the SW) I have anyhow a bootable live rescue disc. Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs